His Mama Named Him Tommy

The race for one of the seats in the New Hampshire Legislature
in my very own district (Strafford 2) resulted in a recount
which, in turn, resulted in a
tie! But there are still disputed ballots. Grant
Bosse has the story, with a picture of one of the disputed
ballots from Pun Salad World Headquarters' town of Rollinsford.

(As there's an X next to Carol Shea-Porter's
name, you can rest assured the ballot isn't mine. I wasn't that drunk
when I voted.)

Is the newly-empowered Republican Party bravely attacking government
spending? Find out in Michael Tanner's article, entitled "The GOP's
Budget Cowardice".

Well, I guess the title spoils the surprise somewhat. One problem
is that GOP bigwigs are furiously backtracking on even the
milquetoast promise to cut federal spending to (already profligate)
2008 levels. They're "clarifying" that to mean only
domestic, discretionary spending. Tanner correctly deems that
a drop in the bucket:

In fact, it's less than 12 percent of the $853 billion that total federal
spending has increased since President Obama took office. It would
reduce government spending from 24.3 percent of GDP to 23.6 percent.

Personally, I'm not too impressed with the choice between
a huge-spending party and a slightly-less-huge-spending party.

Mark
Hemingway joins the crowd noticing that Politifact "is often more
politics than facts." It's the same gripe Pun Salad made here.
Hemingway concludes:

I sincerely hope Politifact ups the facts to politics quotient in the
future.

I sincerely hope Hemingway is not holding his breath waiting for
that to happen.

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